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To: blam
Kon-Tiki
3 posted on 03/22/2008 11:11:00 AM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: BfloGuy

Thank you - Title should be

Univesity reinvents wheel.......


4 posted on 03/22/2008 11:16:43 AM PDT by ASOC (I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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To: BfloGuy

You beat me to it....Heyerdahl goes over 4K+ miles on a raft across the Pacific in the late 40’s...MIT goes out for a half hour ride in a river....big deal.


5 posted on 03/22/2008 11:18:46 AM PDT by Alright_on_the_LeftCoast
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Kon-Tiki

You beat me to it. MIT students needed computer programs to design their rafts while the originals were probably slapped together in a couple days with what was on hand.

14 posted on 03/22/2008 11:39:47 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (The fence is "absolutely not the answer" - Gov. Rick Perry (R, TX))
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